“Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.”

Don’t let a man put anything over on you except an umbrella.

The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

A hard man is good to find.

Flattery will get you everywhere.

I’ll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

The best way to behave is to misbehave.

Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present.

Give a man free hands, and you’ll know where to find them.

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

When I’m good I’m very, very good, but when I’m bad, I’m better.

I always say, keep a diary and someday it’ll keep you.

The score never interested me, only the game.

The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.

The only antidote to the irreversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness.

No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.

The last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.

The holes of oblivion do not exist. Nothing human is that perfect, and there are simply too many people in the world to make oblivion possible. One man will always be left alive to tell the story.

If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.